It’s not looking good, but I hope the submersible is found and the five people in it are rescued in time. The lost are wired very differently than me. They paid $250,000/person to descend for hours in a vessel the size of a minivan. The required release references possible “death” three times.
No doubt there is recency bias at work, and maybe I’m claustrophobic, but If OceanGatesExpedition offered me $250,000 to take the plunge, I’d pass.
Postscript: Tragic ending.
The troubled state of China-(dis)United States relations.
This is a sample of Joseph Bernstein’s funny riffs on what today’s dads can’t stop wearing, reading, and talking about.
The correct answer to one of the questions is Kirkland Signature.
Residential roof top or larger solar on the ground, that appears to be the question.
From National Public Radio. In some fights over solar, it’s environmentalist vs. environmentalist.
Could Denver’s point center be any more different than their football team’s image conscious media loving quarterback? More Jokić and less Wilson please.
As I’m sure you know, the year’s third professional golf major championship, the (dis)United States Open, is underway at Los Angeles Country Club.
What a great course. Bonus points for being a stones throw from the world’s greatest university.
I was about to submit my application when I learned no shorts are allowed. Some of the other rules are a bit onerous too. Guess I’ll stick with Tumwater Valley GC.
Some of LACC’s rules.
Thought I’d highlight this New York Times update from Instagram just in case you aren’t following the Republican’s presumptive favorite Presidential candidate.
“On Instagram on Saturday morning, Mr. Trump posted a mash-up video of himself swinging a golf club on the course and an animation of a golf ball hitting President Biden in the head, superimposed with footage of Mr. Biden falling at a public event in recent days after he tripped over something onstage.”
Spent hours in the car listening to podcasts yesterday. In this one, I learned the following about Pat Robertson.
The New York Times on the life of Pat Robertson.
“He suggested. . . that Americans’ sinfulness had brought on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States, and that the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010 was divine retribution for a promise that Haitians had made to serve the Devil in return for his help in securing the country’s independence from France in 1804.
He said that liberal Protestants embodied “the spirit of the Antichrist” and that feminism drove women to witchcraft. He called for the assassination of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. He maintained that his prayers had averted hurricanes. And he condemned homosexuality as “an abomination,” linking it at one point it to the rise of Hitler and declaring that it provokes God’s wrath, as manifested in natural disasters and even the death and destruction of 9/11.”
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